On My Own Quotes

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

It's my own space, my own time, when I'm just out there letting my thoughts go. It's part of my day like eating, and it's one of my favorite parts.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.